Internship Week 4

This week the teacher came up to us and told us how great of a program Open Court is. She said that we better hope that we are allowed to use it in our classroom one day. From what I have seen of it I really like it too. Each day they turn over a new card. They have already gone through the whole alphabet cards, so now they are working on blends. This week they turned over the “bird card” which is er, ir, ur. This was somewhat difficult for the students, because every other card they have turned over can only be represented in one way. The bird card can be used in three different ways, but I think by Wednesday they seemed to have a better understanding.

There are two children in the class that are way above a first grade reading level. When the class works on their Open Court reading books the higher children just go to the computer and play games. I know that they are already high, but I feel that they should have reading materials on their level to be working with at the same time. However, I am sure it is hard for the teacher to plan two different lessons. The two students do go to an AG class, so maybe they get their reading done in there.

We still have not had a chance to really teach anything to the students. We did work on journals and reading with the students again this week. I am still seeing improvement in handwriting and also in their spelling. It feels great to see improvement!

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